New and noteworthy

We are renaming the “Employee Scheduling” model to “Employee Shift Scheduling” to distinguish between future other models involving scheduling for employees. (We are not changing API urls or entity names, because …)

We have also marked this model as “Stable”, meaning that we promise backwards-compatibility for future minor releases.

We have removed the shift’s duration from the constraint’s penalty. We now only consider the shift’s assignmentPriority.

We added a new Balance time worked rule.

Use this rule to make sure the time worked is balanced fairly across employees.

Tags can now be used to define preferred and required shifts for employees.

See documentation of the rules for more information:

We have improved our documentation related to tags to more clearly give an overview of their possible uses. See Tags and tag types for more information.

We fixed an issue in Balance shift count rule, that caused performance degradation for big datasets.

We fixed a bug for the Minutes between shifts rules, where the minimum was not always honored for shift sequences.

Period rule defined as a part of employee contract can now specify a validity date time span to further limit when the rule is applicable.

Please see Employee contract period rule for additional details.

All ISO 8601 local date time types have been replaced by ISO 8601 local date time with offset to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) to support multiple time zones.

Please see Upgrading to the latest versions and Timezones and Daylight Saving Time (DST) for additional details.

Employees and shifts can now provide a location. This allows you to restrict the possible shifts where an employee can work and minimize the travel distance.

The following constraints have been added:

Employee preferences are more likely to be satisfied for employees with higher priority.

Affects the following constraints

See employee priority.

Affects the following constraints:

The filtering allows you to include, or exclude shifts worked by specific employee types. For example, you can consider only shifts worked by full time employees.